142375 - popup gets not resized between window.open

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Markus Senoner]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

The URL above shows the problem well.

On subsequent calls to window.open() wich opens a popup with different sizes
(width and height), the parameters are ignored and the popup does not get resized.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See http://freeweb.dnet.it/bugzilla/

Actual Results:  Popup size remains unchanged

Expected Results:  Popup window sould be resized according to given parameters

On a short check (by setting status=yes/no and resizable=yes/no) I noted, that
these parameters are affected too, so maybe *all* parameters after the first two
(uri and windowname) to the window.open() function get ignored, if windowname is
already open.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To DOM0...  I'm not sure whether we're supposed to look at the optionstring if
the window already exists.  The fact that IE and NS4 don't agree means there's
no real precedent here...

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

INVALID, we don't even look at the options when we're not really *opening* a new
window, nor should we.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Um...

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I said INVALID! :-)

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 187792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Chris Casciano]

*** Bug 158807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 227717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** Bug 227717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

REOPEN for reconsideration.

IE6, NS 4.8 and Opera 7.11 all implements this and they implement it in a
compatible way.  That is, the window is resized according to the new width/height
but the new position is ignored (so the user can move the window and it won't
be reset).

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This would need to be done in the windowwatcher...

Comment 11

[Dan M]

On the comment 0 testsite my copy of IE6 does *not* resize the window. It
resizes the image to display completely. I was with Johnny in comment 2 but I
guess it makes sense -- more sense -- to resize the window. If you know its
name, it would seem a valid assumption that the window is yours.

Comment 12

[Dan M]

Attachment: resize extant window on window.open with size

This is literally all you have to do. The question is whether we really want to
do this.

Comment 13

[Dan M]

hang on. it's not that simple.

Comment 14

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Dan> my copy of IE6 does *not* resize the window

I didn't actually test IE6 myself, I got that info from bug 227717 comment 11.
I realize my mistake now - they use an explicit 'resizeTo' at that URL
(see bug 227717 comment 5).  If IE6 has the same behaviour as Mozilla
currently has then my 'compat' argument falls.

My bad, sorry to have wasted your time.

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Exactly.  This resizing thing is a total NS4-ism.  Nothing else does it.

Comment 16

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Right, let's end this embarrassment ;-), re-resolving as INVALID!